507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)

Cute little book densely packed with well-written descriptions and informative drawings. Perfect coffee table book for engineers.

The people who have rated this book with 3 or less stars because it "doesn't explain anything" or has limited notes are completely missing the point.This book contains 507 small (2x2") illustrations of different linkages, yokes, and gear and drive systems with brief notes. It doesn't explain how everything works because it assumes a basic understanding of mechanical devices. I'll admit that there are a more than a few illustrations that leave you scratching your head wondering "how does it work?", but that's the fun of it. Figuring out how it works is, in my opinion, more enjoyable than just reading about it. It's a fun challenge -- sort of like a mechanical puzzle game.It's also fun to just flip through the book and imagine things you could build with the mechanisms described. I use this book as a muse and for ideas, and it's great for that.

I purchased 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices by Henry T. Brown, to have a source of information and examples of the Mechanical Engineering device concepts to reference while using other texts and studying Mechanical Engineering in review. I know the five hundred mechanisms and devices are in drawings and illustrations, rather than digital or CAD drawings, but you can spend a lot of money purchasing CAD drawn examples of this type. Each of the mechanisms is illustrated with drawings and descriptions of how it is used. This digital edition includes an handy index to the contents also.

The copyright on the original book is, of course, expired, so several publishers have printings available. This one uses what seems like pretty cheap paper; more significantly, the pages are printed at an unusually small size - I have to believe it's been reduced from the original. The text is on the border of what my 40-year-old eyes can make out. Some of the figures appear to have some handwritten marks on them.So, all in all, this printing feels like a photocopy, with some size reduction. The content is wonderful, and I've already learned a lot from it.

Really great book for its purpose, which is to illustrate various mechanical movements. I am interested in this as I am an amateur blacksmith and have a fascination with pre-electronic agrarian technology (I'm a mild-mannered Data Warehousing Architect by day, a raging Neo-Luddite homesteader by night). While I am incapable of fabricating most of these items with a forge and anvil, studying how these 20th century physical mechanisms work and transfer energy is fascinating. The early 1900s illustrations are crisply reproduced, printing quality is great. The descriptions accompanying each illustration are brief but fully adequate for understanding the physics and mechanical movements involved. Please click on the "Look Inside!" link of the book cover image to review what you will be getting. What you see is what you get, and this book fully meets all realistic expectations generated based on the "Look Inside!" preview. I will say it was a bit thinner than I expected, but it has the number of pages the description says (124) and annotated illustrations of the promised 507 Mechanical Movements.

This book is full of interesting mechanisms starting with simple, finishing with incredible complexity. I really enjoyed looking through all the mechanisms and I already have some ideas on how to implement them. Although, some of the drawings are too complicated to understand by looking at them, and the book doesn't go into extreme detail. One thing I did find useful is that quite a bit of the items had the name of the movement so you can do your own research on those particular ones. I'm quite pleased with my purchase overall.

This is a great collection of mechanisms for the curious. There is no kinematic, static or dynamic analysis; nor is it a source book for contemporary mechanism design. Instead there is an inspiring collection of mechanical innovation from the boom era of mechanical design.I have seen far, far, larger collections (well over 5,000 items) in academic treatises and a modern mechanism sourcebook may be more useful to the busy mechanical inventor - but there is still a lot of value in having this gem to hand.Dover has again produced a clear (though small) and robust paperback version of an old classic at a very attractive price.

Frankly, I have expected a little more of this book... It is fairly thin. But after reading through it, it really shows concepts and side remarks on many mechanical parts.Majorly, it is filled with really fundamental parts, like basic gears and pulleys. It is something that I do not consider worth of buying. But, there are also parts and mechanical solutions to various problems that really are genius. Described are parts of old steam engines, various couplings and clutches, clockwork parts, and some oddities. Also, there are few mechanical marvels described for which alone the book would pay itself out.All put together, for just a few $$ I got a book that gave me some useful ideas and solutions for my projects. On the other hand, Now I am planning of buying bigger book... Maybee I should have done just that in the beginning :)

This is a really good book, what I noticed is the majority of examples are what I have experienced during interviews 20 years ago as Mechanical Aptitude Tests so this book and Theories are very relevant even in 2023. I highly recommend this book for 1st year Mechanical Engineering Students.

I love this little book. It is part of engineering history but also a lesson in concise sharing of knowledge. No, I do not understand all the descriptions just by reading them, but I do understand many, and for the rest internet helps.

If you're remotely mechanically minded, this is really interesting. We live in a time where we can be lazy, and use electronics and multiple motors instead of solving problems elegantly and simply - this book is a testimony to the ingenuity of earlier generations and still very relevant.

Sim. Um livro muito bom. Gostei

Scanned in quite low resolution from the original. It's readable but somewhat blurry and some of the illustrations are not clear enough to show all the details.